Thank you! All of my processing starts in Lightroom for the basics, white balance, lens correction, crop if needed, etc. and then it’s off to one of the Nik plugins, most often Color Efex Pro 4. Where I’ve come up with a few of my own presets that I play around with.

Thanks Norma. I can thank my iPhone for this one. I was backpacking in the White Mountains when I walked through this section of forest. I knew there was a photo here, but I was having trouble isolating a decent composition. So I whipped out my brandy new iPhone6 and took a test shot. I liked what I saw so off came the pack and out came the “real” camera.